This. Is. Awesome. Thanks to GoDCer Harrison for sharing this. We first came across it on InTheCapital.
Is this the best 70s video or what?
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Funny, at the 13:08 mark there’s a guy pushing a lady in a wheelchair off of the escalator!
Actually, when I first saw this headline, I was hoping for something more like the Metro’s disco dance promo commercials… le Metro de Montreal, that is:
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/10/15/il-fait-beau-dans-lmetro/
Remember in 76 of 77 going to stay with my Aunt and Uncle in Silver Springs Maryland. She took me for a ride on the Metro.
It’s a great reminder of a time when we as a people understood the importance of heavy investment in the country’s infrastructure.
Is it wrong that I kept expecting Donald Duck to show up? The narrator’s voice sounds very much like the ones in the educational films very present in my elementary years.
That breaded hipster is everywhere..he is immortal.